"meet up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: meets up [present, singular, third-person], meeting up [participle, present], met up [participle, past], met up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|meet<,,met> up}} meet up (third-person singular simple present meets up, present participle meeting up, simple past and past participle met up)
  1. (intransitive) To come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-meet_up-en-verb-mspo8vza Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 87 13
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To meet (a person) by arrangement. Tags: colloquial, transitive Translations (meet somebody, by arrangement): quedar (Catalan), tavata (Finnish), rencontrer (French), huirua (Maori), treffes (Norwegian Bokmål), møtes (Norwegian Bokmål), tariy (Quechua), встречаться (vstrečatʹsja) (Russian), quedar (Spanish), träffas (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-meet_up-en-verb-GYxo6TQf Disambiguation of 'meet somebody, by arrangement': 5 95

Inflected forms

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